HomeDate: 2025-12-12
A total of 45 applications were submitted for the 2026 1st Round Academia Sinica Grand Challenge Program Seed Grant: 7 from the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences; 15 from the Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences; 23 from the Division of Life Sciences. Of these, 14 were selected for funding, including 3 from Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, 4 from Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, and 7 from Division of Life Sciences. Please refer to the following lists for detailed information.
Application Results for 2026 1st Round Academia Sinica Grand Challenge Program Seed Grant
A. Division of Humanities and Social Sciences: (3 Projects)
Project No. | Project Title | (1) Project PI (2) Project Co-PI | Affiliation |
AS-GCS-115-H02 | GenAI’s Democratization of Advice-Taking: Theory and Experimental Evidence | (1) LI, TSUNG-HSIEN | Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica |
AS-GCS-115-H03 | Economic Valuation of Informal Care in Aging Societies: A Comparative Study of Current Burden and Future Projections in Taiwan and Singapore | (1) CHIU, CHI-TSUN
(2) John Pastor Ansah
(2) Chetna Malhotra
(2) Rahul Malhotra
(2) Ching-Ju Chiu (2) Ying-Ting Wang
(2) Yao-Chi Shih | Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica Case Western Reserve University National University of Singapore National University of Singapore National Cheng Kung University Yuan Ze University National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences |
AS-GCS-115-H04 | Guns, Butter, and Aging Democracies: The Political Economy of Defense and Welfare Trade-Off in East Asia | (1) YEN, WEI-TING | Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica |
B. Division of Mathematics and Physical Sciences：（4 Projects）
Project No. | Project Title | (1) Project PI (2) Project Co-PI | Affiliation |
AS-GCS-115-M03 | Direct comparison of granular and ordinary fluid flows | (1) TSAI, JIH-CHIANG | Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica |
AS-GCS-115-M05 | Bottom-up Synthesis of Wider-than-2-nm Graphene Nanoribbon Semiconductor of Uniform Structure and Property | (1) HOU, CHENG-YI | Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica |
AS-GCS-115-M06 | Hetero-dimension Photodetectors: 2D Materials and 3D Semiconductors | (1) LIN, SHIH-YEN
(2) Jen-Inn Chyi (2) Wei-Sheng Liu | Research Center for Applied Sciences National Central University Yuan Ze University |
AS-GCS-115-M07 | Key Technological Breakthroughs in Home Educational Robots: A Cross-Disciplinary Study on Humanoid Robots for Deep Parent–Child Interaction and Emotional Reconnection | (1) LIEN, YUN-HSUAN
(2) Tsao, Yu
(2) Chun-Yi Lee
(2) Jun-Cheng Chen | Research Center for Information Technology Innovation Research Center for Information Technology Innovation National Taiwan University Research Center for Information Technology Innovation |
C. Division of Life Sciences: (7 Projects)
Project No. | Project Title | (1) Project PI (2) Project Co-PI | Affiliation |
AS-GCS-115-L04 | Tracing the evolutionary origin of vertebrate adaptive immunity: Insights from analyzing the immune cell repertoire of a basal chordate | (1) YU, JR-KAI
(2) Sebastian D. Fugmann | Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica Chang Gung University |
AS-GCS-115-L05 | In Situ Visualization of Mycobacteriophage Assembly Using Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy | (1) HO, MENG-CHIAO | Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica |
AS-GCS-115-L06 | Build the Unbuilt: Mechanistic Investigation into Centrosome Remodeling in Mouse Germline and Embryonic Development | (1) WEI, JEN-HSUAN | Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica |
AS-GCS-115-L07 | Linking Microbes to Host Behavior: Systematic Analyses and Mechanistic Models to Predict Host-Microbiota Interactions | (1) Ting, See-Yeun
(2) Chun-Hao Chen
(2) Po-Ju Ke | Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica National Taiwan University National Taiwan University |
AS-GCS-115-L08 | Ultrastructural approaches to the genome assembly mechanism of influenza virus | (1) WANG, I-HSUAN | Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica |
AS-GCS-115-L09 | Study of the Role of Glycans in Malignant Plasma Cell Tumors: Mining the “Sweet Target” for Therapy | (1) LIN, KUO-I
(2) Takashi Angata
(2) Shang-Yi Huang | Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica National Taiwan University Hospital |
AS-GCS-115-L10 | Understanding ecosystem resilience to extreme weather through soundscapes | (1) TUANMU, MAO-NING | Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica |
